Whiz Comics
Whiz Comics ( English , about "clever comics") is the title of a comic series that was published between February 1940 and June 1952 by the US publisher Fawcett Comics .
Title and publication
The series appeared on a monthly basis and reached just over 140 issues until it was discontinued, which took place in 1952 due to declining sales.
Due to distribution problems with the first issue - which was delivered several weeks delayed - Whiz Comics # 2 was de facto the first issue to go on sale. Issue # 3 followed as the second issue and only then issue # 1 as the third issue.
The name of the series was based on the magazine Captain Billy's Whiz Bang , which was quite popular in the USA in the 1920s and presented a mixture of humorous stories and war memories of the First World War. Captain Billy's Whiz Bang , in turn, was named after the "whiz-bang" used by American soldiers in the trenches of the First World War based on the approach and impact noise for German 7.7 cm howitzers .
content
The series that appeared as part of the anthology series - that is, a series that presents several series between the covers of one and the same series, which are separate in terms of content and artistically - include the superhero series Captain Marvel , the series Ibis the Invincible about an Egyptian magician , the series Spy Smasher about a hunt for fascist - later communist - spy agents , the superhero outfit Golden Arrow , as well as Dan Dare , Lance O'Casey and Scoop Smith .